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SEO and Active Links

July 16, 2009 By admin 1 Comment

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an art. If you own a website or blog and want it to grow and be a great site with lots of traffic, SEO must become a regular part of y our life. Webmasters, successful ones anyway, never stop optimizing their sites. There is always something that can be tweaked or new idea surfacing to help site owners have better SEO.

Active Link Factor and SEO

You must be very careful how many outgoing active links (that are not a part of your actual domain) on your site. If you have too many, search engines will think you are a link farm and punish you for it. If you research and look for successful, high ranking and high traffic sites, you will see that they are not an ocean of outgoing links…especially on their main page.

If you have a lot of resource links, consider just putting them up as a reference and not making them active. That way visitors can still access the resource, but you are not hurting your SEO with a sea of active links.

Link Exchanges should be made only with good ranking sites and or quality niche sites. Be very picky. Also, make a separate page for link exchanges. Better yet, place link exchanges around your internal pages in places they will be most appreciated by visitors and encourage the same for those you exchange with. Remember, a quality link coming IN does not necessarily need to e a high ranking page. A page within your NICHE is the best.

Good SEO requires commitment and regular attention. Take the time to optimize your site regularly and you will reap the benefits for years to come.

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How to Select Keywords for SEO

April 3, 2009 By admin

By: Evelyn Lim

Selecting the correct keywords can make or break your website. Potential customers search the web for desired sites, and if your website doesn’t have the keywords they’re looking for, they’ll miss you.

Determining keywords is an art; it’s best to work backwards. What would a customer search for if they were looking for your site? You literally have to put yourself in the consumer’s place and let go of your preconceived notions about what you think your keywords are. You should remember when writing your site that you need to use words that are not only related to your content, but are popular search words as well. This is called keyword optimization, or choosing the most searched keywords related to your content.

Spend some time listing all of the words and phrases that are related to your website content. Get ideas from everyone you can think of and list them all. Visit competitors’ sites and see what meta tags they use. After this research, you are ready to develop your own keyword phrases.

There are several sites designed to assist you in keyword optimization. Here are a few of the free ones:-

The Overture Keyword Tool (www.inventory.overture.com) lists searches related to the keyword you provide. This took is great for expanding your list.

Wordtracker (www.wordtracker.com) helps identify keywords that will help your ranking on search engines. Wordtracker also gives you other keyword combinations that you may have overlooked.

The Keyword Tumbler (www.keywordtumbler.com) takes your existing keyword phrases and mixes it up to form new phrases and variations that you can include in your meta tags.

A great website is not so great if no one finds it. Remember to research your keywords carefully from the consumer’s viewpoint and then sit back and watch the traffic roll in!

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About the Author: Evelyn Lim is a publisher of the popular newsletter “Mapping You to Success” aimed at the aspiring home based internet business owner. She also hopes to educate her readers on acquiring multiple sources of online income. Please visit her site at http://www.e-BizMap.com for more information.

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Essential First Step For Internet Home Business Success

April 3, 2009 By admin

By: Sarah Smith

There are free software programs that anyone can access and use to find this information. Good Keywords is one such program. I would go so far as to say I wouldn’t even go any further with your Internet home business plans until you have explored the information waiting for you at Good Keywords.

Why am I so obsessed with this piece of free software? Firstly I have a passion for free effective Internet business tools. I believe that the average person on the street can succeed in creating a successful Internet home business if they become aware of the right way to go about it. This isn’t to say that there is only one right way. I’m just pointing out that if you have very limited financial resources it should not stop you succeeding in business on the Internet.

Good Keywords will instantly provide you with extremely important pieces of information. The first thing you need to consider when starting your new business is the product or service you will be promoting. You need to know that there is an actual market on the Internet for the product or service you have in mind. You may be in for a shock but you need to be fully aware of supply and demand before you go any further.

For this article I will use the example of home made soap.

You’ve been invloved with making your own soap for a while now. It started as a bit of an interest then it became your hobby. It’s lovely on the skin and made of all natural ingredients. It smells great. It looks great. You’ve been giving it to friends and family as birthday presents but you now have too much of it.You made a beautiful packaging for it. The local gift shop has agreed to sell your excess stock. You live in a small town and there aren’t that many tourists coming through a lot of the time. You sell a few bars to locals. Sales are steady but you’d really love to hit the big time. You decide to look at the Internet as a vehicle to sell your product.

You download your Good Keywords free software and type in the words home made soap. To your shock you find on Overture US only 199 people typed in these words.

You use this information to do a quick search in one of the popular search engines. You type in the search words home made soap and to your horror you find there are 20,600,00 websites that will be competing with you for the top places for these search words. How on earth is any one of those 199 people going to find you amongst all those sites?

Good Keywords will also give you a lot of related words that you can consider.

For example 5,609 people in the last month searched for natural soap. Your search engine search tells you there are 22,400,000 sites for this search term. Even so you already know that your chances of having someone find your site look a bit better if you choose the keywords natural soap instead of home made soap.

These are still massive numbers. You may even be starting to think the situation is hopeless. It may or may not be. You may be starting to think about selling other things to do with soap.

You type in soap making as your key word and you find 16,237 people searched for this last month. Your search engine check shows you there are 46,100,000 sites. These are still huge numbers but they appear on the surface to be getting better. At least the number of people searching for your keywords is improving.

You try the keyword soap making supply. This reveals to you that 3,518 people searched for this term. Your search engine results confirm a massive 11,700,000 sites are present.

You will need to use your imagination and continue your research at this stage.

Lets say you have decided on your 3 top keywords.You have decided to go with soap making, natural soap and soap making supplies. You have had a bit of a rethink about the kind of business you‘ll be and you’ve decided you will sell your own lovely soaps and be a supplier of things people will want to buy to make their own soap.

It really doesn’t matter what your product or service is you still need to be informed about basics of supply and demand. The selection of your keywords is a very important task. These words will form the basis of your future domain name and the name you choose for your website. Do not underestimate the importance of this first step.

This is only the beginning of your journey but at least you are starting your business on the right foot. Your eyes are open and you haven’t wasted any money. You are fully aware that the competition is huge. You are either going to give up at this point or get excited and take up the challenge of creating your very own successful Internet home business.

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Authors Bio: Sarah is a Success University student. Read the Guide For A Successful Internet Home Business at her website http://www.successful-home-business-connection.com/link.html

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